Travel Blogs from Nakorn Si Thammarat

... following day, Kat and all the other English teachers on the estate, went to work at 7:30am and we got ready for a day of adventures! We took our scooter over to the next town to find the sea. On our way over, all the locals shouted, whistled and waved at us. Some of them couldn't believe that there were 'foreigns' in their town. We sat in the port and had a drink, which we just about managed to order in Thai. We waved at all the ...

I was pleasantly surprised to find a couple of maps in English and a helpful lady who wanted to share with us everything the city had to offer. Unfortunately her English was a struggle to understand and perhaps ours was just as bad as we left with a well marked up map and little else.

The city is split between the modern area in the North and the old city area in the South. The main sights ...

Mon 6th Dec Today we had a long day of travelling ahead of us as we cross the border into Thailand. We travelled about 4 hours on the bus to get to the border between Malaysia and Thailand, we reached the border and had our passports stamped as we entered the border town of Hat Yai - in Thailand, Horay!! A quick glance at the stamps in our passports soon burst our bubbles. We were only given 15 days in Thailand and so were only stamped up until 20th Dec, ...

... walking around in the evening at the market and goofing off, good fun. We also hung out on Children's Day and have taken trips to the waterfall in my town, Nam Tok Yong. We go out to eat dinner sometimes, Thai barbeque, to the market, to the park, painting, or to the library to play mancala or Jenga. I love it. I can communicate well enough so that it's just like having normal friends, there's not much of a language barrier. ...